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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Zardoz is the title of a high-concept, low-budget, very very 70s science fiction movie directed by John Boorman starring Sean Connery, who wears red leather Speedos and dual bandoliers throughout the film (except this one scene in which he dresses in drag). I discovered the movie around the time I started discovering the Web, so its relative obscurity proved to be convenient.